Biography:Michal Parnas
Michal Parnas (Hebrew: מיכל פרנס) is an Israeli theoretical computer scientist known for her work on property testing and sublinear-time algorithms. She is a professor of computer science at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo in Israel, where she was a founding faculty member and was also the dean of the school of computer science from 2011 to 2016.[1] Since October 2022 she is the vice president of academic affairs of the college.
Parnas is the daughter of neurobiologist Itzchak Parnas (he) (1935–2012).[2] She was a master's student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working with Avi Wigderson on a 1990 master's thesis on Approximate Counting, Almost Uniform Generation and Random Walks.[3] She completed her Ph.D. at the Hebrew University in 1994. Her dissertation, Robust Algorithms and Data Structures for Information Retrieval, was jointly supervised by Danny Dolev and Noam Nisan.[4] She is the co-author of a book in Hebrew on discrete mathematics, with Nati Linial.[5]
References
- ↑ School of Computer Sciences, Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo, https://acty.mta.ac.il/en/computer_science/Pages/default.aspx, retrieved 2019-12-08
- ↑ "The brain researcher struggling with brain drain" (in he), Haaretz, https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/obit/1.1885602, retrieved 2019-12-08
- ↑ Wigderson, Avi, Students, Institute for Advanced Study, https://www.math.ias.edu/avi/students, retrieved 2019-12-08
- ↑ Michal Parnas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Newman, Ilan, Discrete Math - Teaching material, University of Haifa, http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~ilan/discrete_math/discrete.html, retrieved 2019-12-08
External links
- Home page
- Michal Parnas publications indexed by Google Scholar
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